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Martin Friedl has been appointed Sandvik Construction’s vice president sales area Central Europe, succeeding Hans Schuller who left Sandvik in June for new challenges outside the company.
Friedl will take on this new role in addition to his current one as sales area manager for Russia.
Sandvik Construction saiys its sales area Central Europe represents a large opportunity for the company due in no small part to the upturn of the German market, and the potential of the Eastern European markets.
Friedl br

The facility, at Newcastle House, Oliver Close, Grays, which stands on a 0.4 hectare site, will service a large portion of the Miller customer base in London and south-east England, and will be a service centre for the company’s new breaker line, which was launched at the recent Hillhead show.

The new facility will become a “centre of excellence” and will be home to Miller’s existing product lines of couplers and buckets.

It will help oversee the introduction of the newly-added range of breakers, whic

More than 1,500 companies from 58 countries (+77 exhibitors over 2013), the entire exhibition centre occupied (all 12 halls), 45 official trade delegations, buyers and operators expected from over 140 countries.

These are the facts and figures for the 49th Marmomacc at the VeronaFiere, Verona, Italy, which runs from today (24 September) to 27 September.

Claimed to be the most important global event dedicated to the stone industry (from machinery to finished products) it is being held for the first ti

According to the most recent analysis of the cement sector by Bourse Msin, 2014 will probably be a third consecutive year of a decline in sales.

In the year to the end of August 2014, sales fell 4.98% in volume terms to 9.3 million tonnes. The drop in sales is due to a drop in demand for housing and construction, which consumes 80% of production.

The drop in demand for property is due to rising prices, banks who do not want to lend, and increased prices for construction materials.

Budgetary cuts i

According to Oficemen figures, cement consumption in Spain fell 2% to 7.1 million tonnes in the first eight months of 2014. In August alone, consumption fell 3% to 819,249 tonnes.

The Iraq's Trade Ministry has agreed on new regulations that increase the volume of Iran's cement exports to Iraq.

For the period between 21 March 2014 and 21 August 2014, more than 8 million tonnes of cement were exported by Iran to Iraq.

Under the new rules, each Iranian cement company is now allowed to export 15,000tonnes/year cement into Iraq from the Mehran, Chazzabeh and Shalamcheh border terminals.

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens Vegvesen) is in process of developing a new type of asphalt with more fine stone that better endures heavy transport.

It is said that the size of the stone used can be reduced to 8mm, compared 16mm which is the maximum size in many asphalts used today. This can also help reduce the particle levels that are released into the atmosphere.

The administration has presented a new report that helps road developers choose the right asphalt mix for different s

Spain's main construction materials manufacturers experienced a 2.9% reduction in revenue volume during 2013, according to the latest Annual Construction Report from Alimarket.

Although it is at a slower rate, the reduction represents another year of decrease for the Spanish materials industry.

It is hoped that 2014 will finally mark a turning point.

Together, the 700 companies included in the report had sales of €57.27 billion (US$74.21 billion).

To consolidate its services offer for the Paris region, French prefabricated concrete solution specialist Bonna Sabla has inaugurated its new 9,500m² storage and distribution platform at Bonneuil-sur-Marne port.

The platform will be used as a sales and logistics base for urban planning products under the Sitinao brand.

According to the Company Secretary of Wijaya Beton (Wika Beton), Puji Haryadi, the construction company has paid US$23.5 million (€18.14 million) to take over 90% of shares in Citra Lautan Teduh (CLT).

CLT produces pre-tensioned spun concrete pile sold under the Tekcon brand and has an output capacity of 100,000tonnes/year.

The acquisition of the company in Batam will help Wika Beton to expand its business and increase its output capacity as well as marketing area.

Chettinad Cement Corporation will invest a total of more than INR 37.50 billion (€478.62 million/US$614.98 million) for project plans in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

The projects will be funded via a combination of debt and internal accruals.

The company will be investing INR 11 billion for a 3.5 million tonne integrated cement plant in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.

In Indonesia's East Java, a new cement factory will be built by Indocement Tunggal Prakasa in 2015.

The company expects the new factory to be operational by 2018.

The factory will be able to produce as much as 2.5 million tonnes a year from 2015 to 2016.

Lafarge's Tour Blanche (Bourg-des-Maisons) site, France, has supplied 18tonnes of white aggregates for the restoration of sculptor Richard Long's White Rock Line art work as part of the 2014 edition of the European Heritage Days event.

The art work is installed in Bordeaux's CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain.

Following its restoration, White Rock Line will be inaugurated on 20 and 21 September 2014, during the European Heritage Day event.

French prefabricated concrete specialist Rector Lesage (owner of the LB7, Fabre and Rector brands) has won the Grand Est des Chênes regional award.

The company, which is one of the leading European suppliers of prestressed concrete and reinforced concrete floor elements, is also present in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Belgium.

The group employs over 900 people and has around 20 factories.

Israel-based cement monopoly Nesher has decided to lower its prices by 2%, with immediate effect.

Reducing price is the initial part of a plan that requires the company to have its Har Tuv facility sold.

According to the Economy and Finance Ministries of Israel the move will significantly expedite the government's plan to have the market opened to competition.

Mexican cement company Cemex has bought back all 2018 and 2020 bonds worth US$592.52 million (€461.14 million) and US$365.15 million, respectively. The former were issued by Cemex and the latter by Cemex Espana.

Pakistan's Maple Leaf Cement reported a 12% fall in net profit to PKR 2.80 billion (€21.11 million/US$27.28 million) in the 2013-14 financial year.

While revenue rose 9% to PKR 18.9 billion with retention prices growing 11%, gross margins slid 1 percentage point to 34%. Pretax profit was actually still up 14% to PKR 3.6 billion, but the company incurred a 17% alternate corporate tax. Positively, finance costs dropped 14% to PKR 3.6 billion.

According to the President of Semen Indonesia, Dwi Soetjipto, the cement company plans to invest IDR 1.20 trillion (€78.01 million US$100.23 million) to set up a new cement plant in Jayapura, Papua.

The cement demand for Papua-Maluku is projected to reach 1.5 million tonnes/year.

Demand for cement in Papua during the first eight months of 2014 was at 787,000tonnes. The new plant will have a capacity of between 600,000tonnes-1 million tonnes/year.

The plant construction is expected to take around th

In Algeria, it is reported that public companies are preparing to launch on the stock market.

The Conseil des participations de l'Etat (CPE), council of state participations, has given the green light for eight public companies to open their capital up to investors or launch capital increases.

They are Crédit populaire d'Algérie (CPA); three public cement groups that are part of Groupe Industriel Ciments d'Algérie (Gica); insurer CAAR; quarry specialist Cosider Carrières (BTPH Cosider group); Hydro-am

Cham-based Rädlinger has acquired the Blauberg granite quarry of Bayerische Granit from Austrian Schärdinger Granit.

The deal also included the 18 staff of the Blauberg quarry which continues operation as Rädlinger Blauberg.